LEGO miniPOV
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Potxoli made a miniPOV (spells words as you wave it around) – but instead of using just waving it around, why not have a robot do that for you! Link. Related: miniPOV @ the Maker store – Link.
Technology
Diecimila (Ten thousand) – Happy 10,000th Arduino board sold!
This is a big deal, the open source hardware project for artists, engineers and tinkerers, Ardunio – just hit 10,000th sold! Massimo writes – Diecimila in italian means “ten thousand” and this marks a moment I would never thought we would reach. Over ten thousand Arduino USB boards have been sold by our manufacturer. It’s […]
AVR Blue Sky projects
Ullasmann has a ton of fantastic AVR projects, all zipped up and ready to build! (The AVR is a popular microcontroller from Atmel). US Telephone Tone Generator 8-Bit International Telephone Ringer Pyrameter Ammeter RGB SlideShow Temperature Recorder Precision Scales Input Multiplexor Bio Resonator Digital Ringer Internet Connection. zip Proportional Integral Derivitative Controller (PID) Debouncer using […]
Body Hacking: If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It
Quinn Norton has posted the slides from the popular Body Hacking talk she gave at O’Reilly’s recent ETech conference. She defines body hacking as: Acting on yourself, with or without assistance, to enhance the function of your body or your perceptions. Body hacking is, like all other forms of hacking, ultimately a form of violation: […]
AppleTV hack weekend
Jason @ Hackszine had a great AppleTV hack weekend, check out all the projects and how-tos! The Internet tubes have been chock full of AppleTV hacks this last week. This weekend, I’ll be collecting links and posting everything on the subject I can find, hopefully recapping at least a portion of all the cool things […]
Photos from 2007 Rhode Island FIRST Vex Challenge
I dropped in toward the end of the Rhode Island FIRST Vex Challenge yesterday, and I learned something I didn’t know; my home state is the first state in the US where every public high school has the opportunity to participate in a FIRST Challenge. I realize we are the smallest state in the US, […]
Run Standard OS X on the AppleTV
Check out this video of plain vanilla OS X running on the AppleTV. semthex from Hackint0sh.org, in collaboration with AppleTVHacks.net has done it again! A complete replacement to the Mac OS X kernel has been built which allows the full version of Mac OS X to be run on an Apple TV. Semthex wrote a […]